by Brendan O’Donnell

L'Hôtel-Dieu, St. Patrick's Hospital et St. Lawrence School of Medicine

L'Hôtel-Dieu, St. Patrick's Hospital et St. Lawrence School of Medicine

Abstract

Accounts of three medical centres in Montreal that existed in the mid-nineteenth century. St. Patrick's Hospital existed from 1850 to 1862; St. Lawrence School of Medicine was established in 1851 and closed in 1852; and the Hôtel-Dieu was founded in 1645 and still exists.